Shittt bro Didn't know that I also had to run after the bitch for a long time Edit: Damm bro used it on the sheep for the Contract: Dragon and that nigga followed me The witcher 3 is so fucken awesome
A few extra tips and tricks: - Constantly pressing your jump button while falling will allow Geralt to perform a roll as soon as he hits the ground. This will allow you to fall from bigger heights without dying, so if you ever accidentally fall, mash your jump button as it can save you from dying. - You can insta-kill any cyclops in the game by shooting them in the eye with a crossbow. Cyclops are generally some-what tough to fight, but shooting them in the eye with a crossbow insta-kills them. To make this easier, use northern wind to freeze the cyclops, then just line up the shot with their eye and they'll die instantly. - Foglets are also annoying enemies as they constantly go in and out of invisibility.. While you can use the Yrden sign to counter this, if you simply cast Aard in the general direction of a foglet as soon as it turns invisible, the foglets get knocked down to the ground and you can insta-kill it. -Crossbow works great in water so keep that in mind! Enjoy the game! EDIT: It seems the cyclops tip only works for cyclops bosses.
I dont know about you but ive been playing w3 for a long time and i had no idea that roach automatically follows the road when you let go of the anolog stick it doesnt use ANY stamina when you do this
heres a quick bit of information for anyone new to the game, when it comes to the potion, oils and bomb system once you craft them you have them forever, its not like skyrim where its kind of a waste of time and effort because you have to be constantly brewing new potions, all you have to do is make sure you have alcohol in your inventory and meditate once you run out of charges to re-charge them, before i knew this i wasnt bothering with them, after i found this out i was using them all the damn time, a potion system done right if you ask me
malataur im well aware of the hilarity, but still, any other game that does potions where you have to constantly make them over and over ive just never bothered with them cause it never seems worth it, in the witcher 3 i use potions and oils every time i enter combat and its great
Xilon Xiao good point. But to amazing human beings like you I and the creator of this video, it so natural to cast quen that we forget that we do it. I love doing a signs build with the Magic Sensibilities mutagen. Then I beat bandits close to death and let them hit me and blow up from my quen discharge :p.
Biggest tip you can have is to learn about alchemy and invest in alchemy skills like heightened tolerance, acquired tolerance and protective coating. Also invest 3 points into axii to get the extra dialogue options which helps you avoid a bunch of conflict situations and gives extra xp. You can swap this in and out for a combat ability as required.
Played the game at release on Xbox. Then again on ps4. Built a PC and played it all again on that. Recently bought a laptop instead and now replaying it again. Love this game
@@aliquidgaming1068 hey yo, i had to wipe my pc due to some issues, but i had transferred my save file to pendrive. Now i wish to play witcher 3 again, so should i directly load the saves, or start again? I was in i guess skeillge island hunting with yennifer(although i prefer triss, lol) for cirilia.
The first tip cannot be stressed enough. You will need food and drinks to replenish your health, loot every box, cupboard, etc. Also dead enemies drop their weapons, loot it and sell it. Weapon smiths pay more for weapons and armor smiths pay more for armor. I have heard many people complain that they never seem to have enough money to buy that weapon or armor they want. This is usually because they are not selling defeat foes weapons/armor and relying only on payment for contracts.
Yep, gathered every enchantment and piece of gear I desire and still a good 100K left in the bank. Looting is crucial to live a wealthy witcher life. 😎
There's a general character upgrade that I utilize every play through that allows your food to last for 20 minutes constantly refilling your health. Definitely one of the greatest upgrades in the game.
My question is I stock up a lot of them as I have been looting like crazy since the very beginning, but not sure how much I should keep for crafting and which of those should be simply dismantled? I guess I have too many hides, monster organs and other junks... I think I only let go of them to get certain amount of coins I need..
Worth a mention; if you're diving for any treasure (like the moon blade) don't be put off by drowners, equip the crossbow you get at the Griffin fight and use it underwater, regardless of damage drowners only take one shot while swimming and geralt will auto aim if you don't hold the fire button
He does auto aim and the crossbow is totally OP underwater, but he won't one-shot underwater enemies early in the game. I just found this out, on my 4th play through lol. Went to get Moonblade as soon as I got to Velen, level 3 on a fresh start, and the drowners were lvl 10. Each took 2 or 3 shots to kill
Obviously the Netflix series , has reawakened this AWESOME game once again. By far the best RPG I've ever played. ( beat it 3 times to make sure I got the best ending)
@@GamingWithAbyss Thanks for the map edge trick ! You're the first ever to have mentioned it that I can recall., And I've watched about million Witcher 3 videos.
@@aaronseidl5941 now that's interesting. I didn't think to check if the books were sold out because most likely I would buy them digital if that's available
1. Always double tap for automatic cantering to follow the roads. 2. Use Witcher sense when running overland or riding Roach. You find a ton of random encounters and loot. 3. Make sure to read your quest journal after you complete one - esp. sidequests. There are some...uhhh...unintended consequences to many of your actions. Wish I knew those my first playthrough
@@ugn154can’t remember the quest name but it’s with the magic lamp on fyke isle, if you take the bones to the boyfriend to bury she escapes and kills everyone in some village
@@mattscamp7974 Cardinal Sins. When you hunt the serial killer who hurt Precilla. If you pay attention, read and go through all dialog options you will learn that the preacher isn't the serial killer (It took e until my 5th playthrough, almost 5 years after the games release to realize this). TW3 is filled with quests that is alot deaper and longer than we thought if we actually pay attention
@@GamingWithAbyss I remember romancing Keira, Sasha, Syanna, Triss, Yen, Shani and even the girl in the quest Iron Maiden. And yes, I completed all the side missions.
herbs are a good source of income if you sell them. Most herbs sell for 1G, but you can just get so much of them from running around that you can make decent money.
A crucial tip if you love fighting over-leveled enemies: if you already have it, throw a Superior Northern Wind at an enemy, doesn't matter if it's human, nonhuman or monster. After it's frozen, sheathe your sword and give a strong punch. Not a fast, but a strong punch. It's pretty much a guaranteed one hit kill
@@GamingWithAbyss no prob. I actually read it in the witcher wiki for Doors Slamming Shut. Awfully useful. The only enemkes it doesn't work on are flying guys like slyzards or wyverns
Just recently learned that Geralt aims the crossbow by himself if you just click it once instead of holding it. Underwater siren fights in Skellige got a lot easier.
@@N3RDH3LP yep! sometimes he still misses if they circle back, but they go straight towards you if you're close enough. i'd still try not to aggro too many at the same time, because you can't use special bolts underwater and geralt can be quite slow when reloading.
rolling relic gear - save before the loot, save manually when you get better option and reload quick save as many times as you want to roll good weapon or gear. Especially in early game difference on silver sword damage could be over 30% (e.g. the same moonblade you can get with 122dmg or 160dmg - this makes massive difference).
When you go into a cave and see highlighted stalagmites or tall pointy rocks USE THE AARD SPELL to break them to see what's inside I just found that out yesterday and there's no telling how much loot I missed out on
lol i just wondered wtf is this cave for (near bloody baron's house) all i saw was pointy rocks facing downwards i wondered for like 20 mins and then gave up. gonna try that again tomorrow thanks fam!
@@HassanMehdi98 it's any stalagmites pointing upward that when you use your witcher senses it glows gold just like treasure or ant container with loot just use the aard spell on them when you see them becuase I saw them in countless dungeons and didnt even realize it
@@humanbeing8676 I dunno... maybe? It's been awhile, but if it's as noticeable as you make it sound, then I probably just assumed it had an alternative function, e.g. used as a day/ night cycle or whatever
There's a autosave option in the settings which will autosave every 3 minutes instead of the usual 15 minutes... which can be useful if you often forget to save yourselves.
Matthew Cox ok so once you get to white orchard and have freedom, get to level 2 by doing a few main story quests but then go and hit up all the “?” On the map.. this will offer you perk points, weapon an armour plus all the odds and ends. Food and water hold importance in this game so every village you find, empty the houses completely! Just take everything tho keep in mind that looting in front of soldiers will start a fight.. other than that makes sure to save the game everytime you do something(trust me) and with all the “lesser runestones” you’ll be finding, sell them! They are worth decent gold in the early game, don’t waste money buying supplies as you can have an overflowing bag just by going around like I mentioned before. Hope it helps 👍🏻
@@lordtyrant420 yeah just chill out and enjoy everything the game has to offer. I have about 80 hours first playthrough w/ DLC and im still not done so it takes a while
Good combat tip is when dodging (not rolling) dodge towards your enemy as they are attacking and you should end up behind them which gives you more time to attack and a bigger damage bonus when attacking from behind
Mohamed Ab story not much , fun a lot lol gwent is only secondary quests but it’s really fun once u get a hang of it , I recommend you try playing Against shop keepers and black smiths so u can build up a good deck and then go after the quest characters
If you are planning on gathering all gwent cards, play with all npc's on a new area before completing quests. Some NPC's with unique cards can die and so you wont be able to complete your collection.
I wish I’d known that components break down into other components.. spent ages looking for a certain ingredient just to find out I had essentially hundreds of it in another ingredient 🙄 also for newer players when you get to roam free in white orchard, go round and discover everything! Its a lot of stuff that you won’t regret going and finding early on.
Yeah dismantling stuff is very important when looking for certain items. Plus you're right exploring the first area is smart. There is a bunch of stuff to discover
If you're looking for certain ingredients, this site has proven tremendously helpful to me: www.rpguides.de/the-witcher-3/gegenstaende/monster-materialien-monsterous-remains.htm
1 tip: explore Skellige as soon as you get there. The game does such an injustice to Skellige. There's so much to explore but you barely have time to do it if you do the main quest. You literally do 2 missions for the main quest and you're out of there, and everytime you get back to Skellige for the main quest there's a sense of urgency to it. So my tip is as soon as you get to Skellige and meet up with Yennefer, do the one mission where you have to go the Castle and meet Crach, then just explore the living shit out of Skellige. Skellige is a gorgeous place teeming with undiscovered locations and is a pleasure to explore, which is why it baffles me even more how Skellige is basically a footnote in the main story when you spend so much time in Velen and Novigrad doing glorified fetch quests, and Skellige compared to those two places is MASSIVE, yet the main quest lets you stay only for a few hours and that's it.
Tbf though Skellige has quite possibly the most epic quest in the whole game "The Lord of Undvik" and plenty of side quests that fill out the isles lore. Skellige might be a backdrop to the main quest line but its still fleshed out with plenty of gaming content.
That's why it bothers me so much the main quest barely happened in Skellige. I *loved* that side quest and couldn't wait to explore more of Skellige, but as soon as I did the main quest on Skellige everything just moved so fast and before I knew it I was back in Velen then to Kaer Morhen then fighting the Wild Hunt. You spend so much time in Velen and Novigrad doing just fetch quests and other bullshit just so you can smell a faint fart by Ciri left behind weeks ago and I was so ready to spend some time in Skellige but nope, barely anything happens there main quest wise. I'm currently playing through hearts of stone right now and I wish they'd make that DLC take place in Skellige, then they would've used the massive map they created for something.
@@yashwinning I know what you're saying, but the fact that Skellige was in the game blew me away itself. Think about it, they could of cut the whole Skellige content out of that game, saved money and production time and nobody would of known any better. Specially since White Orchard was the tutorial area and Velen/Novigrad were so huge. I'm just thankful we got Skellige at all.
There's a good reason why they kinda left skellige out，probably didn't have enough time to polish it. Skellige is a mess compared to novigrad. It is infuriating to travel because of mountains and islands(granted you can buy fast travel scrolls but I'm not sure if they price is worth it)，there are many balance issues. You'll sometimes see level 34 enemies right next to level 13 enemies. Place is desolate not many npcs to interact with hence not many interesting side quests. There is a couple platforming sections which is god awful because geralt moves like a horse on ice. He'll draw his sword right as he jumps because devs added sirens to the platforming section and instead of grabbing the edge of the cliff he'll fall down. It's just obvious the devs couldn't finish skellige by the release date.
Thanks for not spoiling anything, and giving advice that, after the white orchard business and opening up the larger world, is very relevant to an untrained eye on the game, first play through on hard for me... And I'm already willing to devote a good portion of my life to this game.
@@GamingWithAbyss It would've saved a lots of time, but not a big deal because the W3 world is beautiful and i liked to travel with a horse. I got the W3 plat back in 2015 (was my #10 plat) and it's still my all time favourite game. I need to buy the GOTY version too :)
Some good Gwent tips; -Spy cards are your best friend -If you're playing against Nilfgaard, bring all your Decoys since Nilfgaard is the most Spy heavy deck -Monster deck is easily defeated by the Biting Frost + any type of Scorch card, preferrably Villentretenmerth -Try to bring a mix bag in your deck, don't load too many cards on a single row -If you happen to draw 2 of the same type of Muster cards, throw one away at start to free up a card slot for something else. -Never throw away Medic cards because they can turn the table in a single move, and if you have more than one Medic card, feel free to keep slapping cards down to bait your opponent into draining their card pool. You can always revive used cards in the last round with Medic cards. -Try not to bring more than 2 weather cards -Don't bring out your big cards immediately, especially late game when the AI typically has at least 1 Scorch card, sometimes 2. -Get Mysterious Elf ASAP. It's the best card in the game. It's a Spy card and it's also a Hero card which means it can't be Decoyed or Scorched, plus it's worth 0 points so you don't add anything to your opponent's score. -Finally, if you want to practice Gwent without losing money - consider enabling the dev console and type in "secretGwint" to immediately initiate a Gwent match against AI whenever and wherever you are, free of charge. This only works for PC though
I kinda don't have the patience for Gwent just like that board game in Horizon Forbidden West. The only time I wanna see a chess piece is if I'm playing DMC3.
Spam the dodge button(idk the actual name but it's the one where do you a short hop in a direction), do not spam roll or parry. The dodge move will give you invulnerability for around .5 seconds. I died to every mob until i learn that while parry is fun, dodging is just way better as even if the attack hits you but you dodge, it will not deal damage any to you. Rolling away will make you lose tempo and reset your lock on which is annoying. So dodging is more optimal than parrying or rolling.
@@TheAethelwulf1972 I believe they are talking about when you do the long roll(wording differences as dodging can just mean rolling out of the way). As the quick dodge has invincible frames right as you press it. I only know from my experience. I don't know if difficulty affects this but it has always given me s, of course, you still have to know the timing but spamming it in tight situation always works.
Things I wish I knew earlier: The Alchemy skill tree is amazing. Specifically the Refreshment, Acquired Tolerance, and Heightened Tolerance skills. Maxing out Refreshment makes any potion you drink also instantly heal you for 25% of your total HP, and maxing the two Tolerance skills will allow you to have at least 3 decoctions active at once with enough of your toxicity bar left over to chug a potion or two. If you have Blood & Wine, Alchemy gets even more ridiculous with the Mutation system that expansion added. There is one Mutation that increases your sword damage and sign intensity by %0.75 for every 1 point of toxicity you have. And with some skill investments you can get quite a high maximum toxicity. When I was running my version of this build, I was getting somewhere around a %170 damage increase, and my build wasn't even that optimal for it. That was the build I beat Death March with.
Before the alchemy build ever came in to play I based my death march play through on Axii and made all my enemies kill each other. It was funny and fun though admittedly way worse than the alchemy build. Just some fun input no real reason to post this lol
I stepped away from the game for awhile and had to basically relearn everything when I picked it back up, but digging into the game with fresh eyes helped me discover all the alchemy stuff I’d largely ignored initially. My brother had the exact same experience. I’ve always wondered if an alchemy build is even possible early on in the game. I remember completely ignoring decoctions because they weren’t explained very well (barely at all, really), it seemed like using them would basically kill you, and the descriptions didn’t make the benefits sound all that great. It’s a build you really can’t just dabble in like you can signs and combat. You have to really commit to it.
You can cast Igni on beehives to get honeycomb. You'll get atleast 2 and atmost 4. I had more than 60 before leaving white ochard. It's rare in Velen but you'll mostly find them in villages or swamps.
The dictionary says both pronunciations are correct. The original pronunciation was most likely BESTiary because the Latin word for beast is bestia. We really should ask why the English changed "best" to "beast" instead. But the answer is obvious: "best" was already a word in English. Yes, the evolution of words could be something as silly as that.
For me the best discovery was Temerian Armor on New Game + ( all your old gear from previous game will be obsolete at lvl 55 give or take.) Buy it at White Orchard Merchant that you rescued from the Griffin in cut scene. 2) Buy the Nilfgaardian Armor at Crow's Perch if you want Medium Armor build (optional) 3) Definitely buy the Skellige Armor set when you get there. (Heavy) These Armor sets will give you a cushion to upgrade your Witcher Gear for later boss fights. Another tip is to jamb as much crap into one of the storage chests before NG+. It becomes a nice reference for what NG+ gear does. & you can sell it after Blood & Wine. (Witcher IRA) I wore Temerian Armor w/Assassins Gloves & old GM Manticore boots (for the toxicity) For a huge part of the new game+. Shame Ves didn't notice.
The only problem is that the bonuses given by the Witcher Armors, like félin and Manticore, are extremely good, and The Temerian, Nilfgaardian and Skellige Armor doesn’t provide any good bonuses.
I remember when I played skyrim and I was so overwhelmed by all the quests, spells, builds, different weapons and shit. I just started playing the witcher 3 and Jesus Christ it's like that all over again but X10
Having the strong back skill is a good thing specially grinding quest in velen and novigrad where tons of sword, armor and sellable stuff are lootable, having strong back makes you horde more sellable items specially when armorers and smiths are out of gold, you can hold on stuff longer while waiting for them to stocking up some crowns so you can sell to them again Edit: also it only cost 1 point getting this skill for lvl 6 or 7 would defenetly help, btw i recently played Witcher 3 again and gained 18k crown while still level 14 grinding stuff at velen and novigrad ALSO check the vendors coz not all of them pays the same amount, some pays more some pay less, swords usually valued more if you sell them to blacksmiths and armor to armorers
After nearly 1000 hours in this game I just today accidentally found out that if you don Geralt's Nilfgaardian armor set (purchased from the Quartermaster in upper Crow's Perch (the merchant right by Joanna the Blacksmith, and Fergus,))you can gain entry into the House of Respite that sits just northwest of the Nilfgaardian war camp (which, itself, sits in the far southeast corner of Velen.) Turn to the right after you enter the building and you'll find a unique winged Nilfgaardian helm, like the ones the soldiers wear! Super cool. You equip it like a mask. It looks weird on Geralt, but almost nobody has it.
I’m so glad you covered the moon blade. Because I did have it early on top around level 5 or so and I kept using it till about 14 and constantly switching out my steel sword with other loots throughout the game... except for the moonblade. Now I’m glad you said it’s such a great weapon because no matter what weapon I got that was orange quality, I just couldn’t give up this level 3 sword. Now I don’t feel like such a noob.. thanks yo
Just started my 7th playthrough of the game, and there are only a few tad bits I could suggest. If you have all the free dlc, you can buy a lvl 4 temerian light armour from the guy Geralt and Vesemir save from the Griffin. After meeting Emhyr the first time, I was lvl 2 at the time and used the potion you start the game with to equip the set. I didn't find any armour better till the Griffin witcher gear. Another point, lay out your character build before spending skill points, sure you can respec, but I found it very helpful planning out which skills I need first in the playthrough. (Alchemy tree under rated). I never bothered with alchemy skill tree and I feel dumb af now. 3 Skills I use in every character build because they just make your time much easier. Refreshment heals you 25% health upon any potion use, also increases potion duration by 25%. Undying, uses your adrenaline points when you die to revive you. And feet footed, you don't take damage when you dodge. Igni and quen are cool and all, but aard, axii and yrden are also very cool and valuable signs especially when you combo them with different witcher gear. Current playthrough I have aard sweep and piercing cold with aard sign intensity 90%. I freeze big groups of enemies and throw a bunch of bombs down such as grapeshot and dancing dragon. You can recreate the same thing with the northern wind bomb.
I think at around l11 you can get the nilfgardian armour set from the quartermaster in the Baron's's compound at crows perchopposite the dwarf armourer. This has huge damage reduction starts against all types of slashing, piercing and bludgeoning and is fantastic against human enemies
@@lesleybarnett7605 it's one of my favourite sets combined with the nilfgardian horse gear, but all of it is very expensive and not as good as any of the witcher sets. I do use it for cosplay purposes early on however
One tip from me is don’t feel obligated to use oils, potions, and decoctions. I played all the way through new game+ on death march without touching any of them. A good build (use quen), grandmaster armor and enchanted weapons are all you really need.
Yeah they should be your go-to item if you're having trouble with that particular enemy. I felt that Death March was hard in the very beginning of the game and then at the end. Everything else in between was not bad
I believe the important thing is not the "need" , if you have a proper build you can just spam left click and win the game but I think using all the sources to its far extent is what can make this game amazing. For instance, when I'm fighting a group of enemies I always use the proper oil (I got used to their colours,I dont need to look at their names for hours) I use my before-the-fight quen, and dive into the battle with a bomb (preferably northern wind or dancing star) so my dive into fight with some bunch of bandits becomes an epic showtime, I use dragon's dream and pop and igni, use a potion through the fight depending on the enemy (for example blizzard makes my pirouettes seem cinematic) and change this combinations all the time. so to sum up I think using every possible thing makes you stronger, normally, and makes your experience something unforgettable.
Always go for Witcher weapons and lighter/medium amour, and always make sure to use you higher mutagens that have the same colour as your attack ( *mutagens* blue=sign boost, red=attack boost, green=potion/poison/vitality boost, yellow= yellow perks boost!). Witcher weapons and certain trophies help you level up faster throughout the game. Lighter/medium amour help you dodge/roll without spending too much of your stamina/adrenaline which in turn makes you use your signs a lot faster, if you have heavier armour that will drain you stamina/adrenaline a lot faster and it will slow down the process of rebuilding it faster, but the defence is impeccable.
The best tip I know is the invincible decoction mix: Ekimmara,Ekhidna,Archgriffin combo will make u invincible with strong attacks and you just need 10 levels to open all of the abilities for increasing toxicity.
Things I wish I knew earlier: start a new game plus at least at level 50 because I reached level 100 which is the level cap on new game plus but I started at about 48 or so, therefore my grandmaster armour and weapons can only reach level 98 or so..
And don't start new game plus without Aerondight cause you are able to level the sword with you all the way to 100. It is as strong as the one you can obtain later in Toussaint on new game plus.
Jaded Old Joe I am using the Manticore Grand Master Armor in the new game plus on Death March for the Toxicity bonus. I am level 70 and playing the Novigrad missions with Triss. I haven’t had any problem for now, in fact I am shiting on everything. Do you think I will be able the play with this Armor until Blood and Wine ?
I’ve played maybe 4 hours of this game when it came out and hated it. Last week I found out they did an update on it to run 60fps on series x. After 2-3 hours I actually feel in love with this game. Can’t believe the difference 60fps makes in input lag. It felt great. I’m level 47 and on my ng+ now being a dick in the dialogue lol
Same shit happened to me, I didn't enjoy the game up until maybe 10 hours through and now I'm addicted. Also I get you with the dialogue I do the same shit
Gaming with Abyss I spent 2 days in real looking for powdered monster tissue then I FOOKING realized I could have dismantled som monster parts and saved myself time I could have spent completing quests. I regret everything.
5:00 or just get the Viper swords from White Orchard, both come with pretty good stats and both have an inherent 15% chance to poison which is extremely strong early game.
I had to get to skellige three separate times before I finally got into this game. It happened the same each time, I'd play through Velen and Novigrad, be slightly intrigued, get on the boat, get overwhelmed and put it down for just long enough to only kind of remember how to play. It didn't help that my primary experience with open worlds was Skyrim and Fallout. But by the fourth time things started to feel more natural and when I got to the boat I just kept going and didn't notice. I'm now close to finishing the main story and kind of excited for the DLCs. If for no other reason than that sweet red armor.
Something I did for infinite money is meditate where mordvarg spawns and keep killing him. You can collect the stuff infinitely and sell it for infinite money. It’s a long process, but I used it whenever I needed coin. (This is during the “In wolf’s clothing” side quest.)
Shin It’s somewhat far in. When you go to Skellige there’s a mission where you go to a graveyard and (minor spoiler) use Necromancy to find out what happened to Ciri. It’s either during that quest or after, you get the in wolf’s clothing.
1. Read what the potions, decoctions, and bombs do and keep all your alchemy items as upgraded as possible. Golden Oriole for example is extremely useful against Endragas, and other enemies like the hybrids that poison you as it turns poison into healing. You can run into a pack of Endrega drones and with golden oriole you will just stay full health as they will keep poisoning you and healing you. Black Blood is also very useful against some enemies. 2. You can use the crossbow while piloting the boats without standing up and it will auto target for you. Very useful in Skellega when dealing with all the hybrids over the water. It also shoots them off when they grab onto the side of the boat. 3. Looting inside homes, and around towns and cities when no guards are watching gives tons of loot. It's weird how you can just rob people in their homes without them noticing. Only can't do it in front of guards. Novigrod and other cities at night has less guards so you can run around looting ridiculous amounts of stuff. 4. Herbalist huts tend to have a lot of herbs planted around them in close proximity so you can net a lot of them quickly this way. Other good areas involve farming fields around the towns where the people plant stuff. Herbs regrow rather quickly too. Running around with the witcher senses on highlights all the stuff you can grab. 5. If you have witcher contract quests speak to the contract giver first as if you run into the contract in the wild before speaking then you miss the opportunity to haggle. Haggling can often grant you a lot more gold. 6. When romancing Yennefer, and Tris you get to choose 1 of them to be with when you get to Kaer Morhen. If you choose both well they will find out and you will end up alone after a funny cut scene. It doesn't matter if you sleep with the various other women that you have opportunities with though. 7. Northern Wind bomb can be very useful to freeze foglets or people so you can get a kill button on them. Probably works on other smaller enemies as well, but I haven't tried it. 8. For flying enemies like hybrids and draconoids you have a variety of ways to knock them out of the air so you can hit them on the ground. Crossbow, Axi, and Aard all do it. 9. Remember to loot monster nests after you destroy them. 10. When doing fist fights as there are a lot of these fights you can enter then just parry there attacks and then use the heavy attack on them a few times as they will be stunned. Rinse repeat and it gets very easy once you get the hang of them. 11. When horse racing it helps to have an upgraded saddle, but there is a ton of rubber banding so run as fast as you can and then just trot till the stamina builds back up while trying to block your opponent from passing you. Hard to know how long the race is so if you refresh your stamina too close to the end and your opponent gets ahead you can't overtake them in time. 12. Check every vendor or NPC you can open a dialogue with to see if they play gwent if you enjoy playing and want to get all the cards. Also see if they sell Gwent cards as some vendors do, particularly innkeepers. Some quests impact a gwent player so you can miss out on opportunities. So keep in mind. For example one quest with trish has a short little tournament you can play that you can only participate during that quest. Also, once defeating a gwent player check their dialogue again to see if the gwent option is still white and not greyed out as you may be able to beat them again for another card. This is usually the case on some of those who you challenge from a quest. 13. Easy to forget that for noonwraiths you need a yrden sign down to reveal them so you can damage them. Keep Specter oil on against them and regular wraiths. 14. When you have too much weight, overburdened you walk and swim slow, but you can still ride your horse, and a boat at full speed. Use the FIend Decoction for an extra 20 of weight you can carry. You can also still fast travel so in most cases being overburdened isn't that big of a deal.
Here's some more important tips: Repairing items is actually not as big a deal as many people might think. Items on 0 durability don't actually break, and, while they do receive a small malus to damage/armor value, on weapons it's hardly noticeable unless it makes you kill certain enemies in 1 hit more, and on armor, the %protection values are much more important, as armor substracts from damage first, not after the percentages, so say enemy does 1000 dmg and you had either 200 or 100 armor, and your total resistance to his type of damage was 50%, in case your armor was 200, you would be dealt (1000-800)*50/100 = 400 dmg, and in the other case, (1000-100)*50/100=450 dmg. The damage reduced by percentage protection is far greater, and the more percentage protection you have, the less value you gain from actual armor rating. Repairing items should NEVER be done at smiths, instead, if you loot around, you're bound to find a crapton of repair kits, for both armor and weapons. HOARD those, store any excess in stash and keep 2 aprentice and 2 journeyman kits of each on you just in case. The money you will save from using those instead of paying smiths for repair is no joke, especially on items past level 10, where 15% durability will cost more than 15 crowns to repair, whereas if you just sold your apprentice kits, you'd get 4 crowns at most. Silver weapons and heavier armor cost even more to repair too. Dismantling should ONLY be done at Master level smiths/armorers, as they give 100% of the materials back. This is something very few people know about, but it's actually doable even at level 4 when you first get out of Vizima and into Novigrad. Just bolt straight into novigrad, no need for a pass, swim across the pontar like the true witcher pro you are, and start Hattori's "Of Swords and Dumplings" quest. Don't be intimidated by the level required, all the combat in this quest will resolve itself without you even having to swing your sword. There will be a fist fight with Sukrus at most, but as long as you know the basics of countering when he punches, you'll get it done, the other sections of combat there will ALWAYS be at least 1 immortal character to butcher your enemies if you simply dodge around and quen for the entirety of the fights. You will need to get axii lvl 2 though. lvl 3 will allow you not to pay 200 crowns though. Another tip for early game, take note of what merchants buy what items at what prices. Only good merchants for food items are white orchard and velen inkeeps. Other inkeeps have crappy prices for food, but really good "clutter/junk" buying prices. Do NOT sell stuff to normal "misc" merchants that can buy everything, they'll essentially scam you. Weapons and armor you would ideally store in your storage vault, whatever contains dimeritium/shiny ingots you should keep for dismantling, the rest you will sell in bulk to armorers/weaponsmiths in big cities only, like oxenfurt/novigrad. Peasant smiths give shit prices. Armorers pay more for armor, Blacksmiths more for weapons. Both pay well for horse accessories(saddles,blinders,bags). Alchemists in or near big cities will pay the best coin for your alchemy monster parts, like drowner brains, bloods, etc. and also all the excess alcoholic beverages you'll never use, alchemy paste and powder you'll loot along the way. Also notable is that not all items in a category have the same price modifier everywhere. Certain alchemists in white orchard and velen for instance will pay a premium for honey, at 7 crowns per piece, that's the most money you can get per piece of honey sold, however their food buying prices are subpar.
Hate to even call this a game, seems to do the experience injustice, more like a timeless journey. Definitely good argument for RPG of the decade. Glad to see it making a strong comeback, of course the hardcores never stopped playing it ; )
If you want to farm red mutagen early , head to Toderas and kill the alghoul. You can respawn the enemies by fast travel to White Orchid or other region and back.
I've played the witcher a number of times since release so I was expecting to know all of these. I cant believe I didnt figure out the map edge fast travel thing...
One is better than none I guess but yeah if you played the game previously before and it sounds like you played the DLC than most of these you should know
Still enjoyed the video, and am so happy for the developers that their game still garners so much support and enjoyment. Keep up your content for both us vets and new players jumping in.
Haven't been gaming for 10 years and decided to pick up a game. I've never seen such beautiful graphics lol. Pretty amazing, and I've only just started playing witcher 3
yeah for a game that's 5 years old they did a hell of a job with gameplay and graphics. I can't wait to see what the Next Generation consoles will bring
Averylargewood I made the mistake of playing on the hardest difficulty. I made it to where you play as Siri and you fight wolves. I’m definitely dropping difficulty
Guys, one tip: if you dont want to keep eating to replenish vitality, get the gourmet skill under General in Character. It means that once you consume one piece of food or drink, your health will regenerate for a solid 20 mins.
I got the second (lower level) aerondight from the chest (found behind an illusion) after wandering in the dark with Keira Metz! I don’t know if it’s a rare drop or guaranteed to the chest, but it’s better than the moon blade I had at the time! So probably the best early game sword that nobody seems to reference
Gaming with Abyss oh cool, it’s located in a chest right after the Nithral battle (but before she gets the magic lamp), it’s quite well hidden! The chest is protected by a foglet I believe
For anyone starting this game; look up what are the options to avoid an ending that will make your dozens of hours in this game feel wasted. It is just a few dialogue options among hundreds that make no sense. It will save you a lot of grief.
The dismemberment effects in this game had me addicted. Often i put it on the easiest setting cuz it makes the effects far more realistic. I mean most if not all people would be done after a full force strike from a 4ft razor blade. Cut in half by 2 strikes or dismembered by 1 has really made it even more addicting to play. lol, riding by on a horse having a single swipe take a head off is just f****** awesome..
If you upgrade all of Axii it is the most over powers thing in the game, you can turn enemies into allies and they can kill with one hit and be killed with one hit
When you do quest, pay attention to all the optional dialogs and read lore. Many quests is alot deeper, more complex and longer than we first think, and many quests have hidden plot twists. Here is one example: Cardinal Sins. When you hunt the serial killer who hurt Precilla. If you pay attention, read and go through all dialog options you will learn that the preacher isn't the serial killer (It took me until my 5th playthrough, almost 5 years after the games release to realize this)
a bit late but heres a tip: you can change your autosave interval to as low as every 3 minutes, found it the hard way after completing a major quest only to die afterwards the default is 15 mins
Kyle Kautz you still have to play sensibly but if you don't mind sacrificing a round you can almost guarantee a win because the opponent will never be able to match the amount of cards you get from spamming spies. The only time this falls down is if they do the same or have ways of repurposing your spies into their own hand
Biggest tips. Read the bestiary Brew potions and upgrade them Brew OILS and upgrade them Craft Decotions. Really Study the Alchemy Skills. Not the Flashiest but IMO the strongest. Almost everyone I've spoken to that Dislikes this game or has qualms with it didn't use these tips they just ran into battle content with basic potions and no oils. Settle down and play as A Witcher study your Game and Hunt smarter not harder. HAPPY HUNTING!
Tips that I wish I knew: 1: In gwent always try to lose the 1st round unless it's an easy win, play your spy cards and weaker cards at that round 2: Use Axi on your horse to reduce its fear 3: Foglets won't attack you if you stand still and they don't get behind you, helps with trying to regenerate your stamina. 4:Crossbow 1 shot drowners underwater 5:If you still have a lot of weight but already sold most of your weapons and armor try selling your "junk" or dismantling it. 6: Don't forget to use your potions/decoctions and bombs in combination. You can throw a devil puffball, then drink the golden oriole (immunity to poison) and just run around as the enemy takes damage from poison cloud. 7: Don't forget about investing skills in the potion alchemy, popping 2-3 decoctions at a time can be a whole lotta fun. (I recommended Acquired tolerance)
Man, can you please explain something to me please? I'm trying to level up my character tree, but, now it's telling me " Additional points needed to unlock: 3" how the hell do I unlock more skills? I've been saving my points, thinking that would help . Nope. Any help would be appreciated, thanks
I believe, more important than the moonblade, you can get the Viper School Swords, plus the Warrior Jacket upgrade before you leave White Orchard. These items will lasts forever, even above level 10, when you start looking for more advanced Witcher gear.
You can loot chests more than once! When you've looted a chest and when you return later after you saved and loaded a game, you'll notice that when you use your "senses" that the chest lights up. When you walk (or swim) to the "empty" chest with the senses on then the lighting disappears. You probably didn't noticed that the "open chest" icon appears for just a spilt second. Whenever you've looted a chest and it appears highlighted in your senses you need to run towards the chest with you senses on and hit the button like a madman. Most of the time it will have some new loot. (i even had 3 of the special Undvik tools needed for the Armorer in Velen)
Gaming with Abyss oh no i’m only on the regular difficulty my guy. but this is my first witcher game haha. thanks for the video btw it was very helpful
There's a tournament later on in the game and within it there is a missable gwent card. Plus there's so many opportunities to play gwent that it is a good idea to make sure you are decent at it
You forgot to mention that rolling prevents you from breaking your neck - unless the drop is too big. Also Axii unlocks new dialogue options in some conversations - these are not the droids you are looking for :)
F6 Often, and get AutoLoot. Works from Roach as well, and can steal hidden/guarded cashes and diagrams from witin caves, and behind monsters. I have it bound to W, so can go around an loot EVERYTHING (A bit Cheaty tho).
Really good tips, some of the Witcher 3 guides are really dated and basic and this covered a few things I didn't know, just come back to the Witcher 3 after watching the Netflix series and proper falling in love again!
I highly recommend going into settings and changing movement control to "alternative" it feels much better to me than the other movement option. Playing with a controller.
My first couple played throughs I tried Gwent, but I really didn’t get into it because it was too much. This play through I told myself I’m gonna learn it and it’s actually a really really good game.
Another tip: if you're having a hard time, there are three alchemy abilities that will help you stay alive longer: with Refreshment, potions heal you if you're hurt, acquired tolerance increases max toxicity by 1 point (if you have a superior bomb in your inventorym you already have 3+ points and so on), and tissue transmutation, which, if fully upgraded, grants an additional 1000 HP for each decoction you drink. You can also throw in Adaptation, which will keep the HP bonus for longer. I did this yesterday during Blood and Wine and it really helped
2:39 To add to that, when you've just found a better sword, keep the old one as a spare incase you end up far from town and your new sword gets messed up mid fight.
I'm roughly 20 hours in, and it hasn't been a problem for a bit. But when watching this, the memory of breaking my sword mid fight just hit me like a brick and thought I'd share. Happy monster hunting!
If you need crafting materials like 'monster feathers', you can dismantle harpy feathers, for example, to get these. No need to find specific items. Took me forever to find this out.
By the time you are level 10, if you follow tip one of this guide you should have plenty of repair kits anyway. But carrying two sets of witcher armor is a good tip for different scenarios.
Human enemies are very weak to your signs. Set em on fire, slow them with yrden, stun the shield guys and slash their backs, knock them back and OHKO them while they are on the ground. Seriously (and minor spoiler for Blood and Wine), there are several massive human fortresses, and they're supposed to be difficult to beat due to the sheer number of enemies. Not with gryphon armor and signs. Honestly, you don't even need quen. Igni and yrden alone can clear the whole fortress.
I loved this game so much. I was having so much fun with the all the interesting characters and questlines and the combat was a blast. Then after maybe like 70 hours of time invested into this game I ran into a glitch and I’m unable to progress. (Possible spoilers below) I got to Kaer Morhen and I had to do three quests. I helped both lambert and eskel and then I only had to help Yennefer with her megascope. Only the quest marker was on top of one of the mountains you can’t get to. I’ve done my best to try to walk all around the mountain and there is no way to get up I just slide down the sides. After watching some gameplay videos I realized that the quest marker was supposed to be in the tower in kaer morhen. I don’t know what to do now. I love this game so much I really don’t wanna just abandon it. I if anyone can give me some advice that would be great.
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The thing I wish knew was that you could use Axii on that stupid goat and I spent 20 mins using the bell
I don't remember that part but thank you for sharing that in case someone runs into trouble
Shittt bro
Didn't know that
I also had to run after the bitch for a long time
Edit: Damm bro used it on the sheep for the Contract: Dragon and that nigga followed me
The witcher 3 is so fucken awesome
My mind is blown.....thankfully the goat didnt give me too much trouble tho.
Fuck. I wish I knew that earlier 😂
Yooo damn hahah
A few extra tips and tricks:
- Constantly pressing your jump button while falling will allow Geralt to perform a roll as soon as he hits the ground. This will allow you to fall from bigger heights without dying, so if you ever accidentally fall, mash your jump button as it can save you from dying.
- You can insta-kill any cyclops in the game by shooting them in the eye with a crossbow. Cyclops are generally some-what tough to fight, but shooting them in the eye with a crossbow insta-kills them. To make this easier, use northern wind to freeze the cyclops, then just line up the shot with their eye and they'll die instantly.
- Foglets are also annoying enemies as they constantly go in and out of invisibility.. While you can use the Yrden sign to counter this, if you simply cast Aard in the general direction of a foglet as soon as it turns invisible, the foglets get knocked down to the ground and you can insta-kill it.
-Crossbow works great in water so keep that in mind!
Enjoy the game!
EDIT: It seems the cyclops tip only works for cyclops bosses.
Those are some excellent tips and thank you for sharing
Actually did not know the cyclops one
I dont know about you but ive been playing w3 for a long time and i had no idea that roach automatically follows the road when you let go of the anolog stick it doesnt use ANY stamina when you do this
those are actually better tips than in the video
Another : Bruxa can be killed in one shot ... Yrden ...then use aard to knock it off on yrden ... Then stab
heres a quick bit of information for anyone new to the game, when it comes to the potion, oils and bomb system once you craft them you have them forever, its not like skyrim where its kind of a waste of time and effort because you have to be constantly brewing new potions, all you have to do is make sure you have alcohol in your inventory and meditate once you run out of charges to re-charge them, before i knew this i wasnt bothering with them, after i found this out i was using them all the damn time, a potion system done right if you ask me
Spot-on and thank you for sharing the extra tips
Thank you, I'm nearing the end of the story right about now and I didn't even know this.
Yeah but in harder difficulty they don't insta-refill anymore
Umm... "Potion system done right"??? You drink booze and meditate and your bombs & potions magically re-appear. 🤣🤣🤣
malataur im well aware of the hilarity, but still, any other game that does potions where you have to constantly make them over and over ive just never bothered with them cause it never seems worth it, in the witcher 3 i use potions and oils every time i enter combat and its great
Dodge, don’t roll. You are virtually invincible when dodging, and it doesn’t cost stamina.
Yeah, that is definitely a good tip.
This + Quen you are almost invincible.....very few enemies can be a real challange
Xilon Xiao good point. But to amazing human beings like you I and the creator of this video, it so natural to cast quen that we forget that we do it. I love doing a signs build with the Magic Sensibilities mutagen. Then I beat bandits close to death and let them hit me and blow up from my quen discharge :p.
I've noticed that dodge keeps me in the fight, while rolling allows me to escape. At least that's the way I use them.
Kazutopia 808 I only roll with giants. It’s a little trickier to dodge them.
NEVER sell your Witcher equipment, you'll need it to craft the next level. Learned that the hard way
This is an important tip thanks for sharing
Yeah I left all mine in my house in the blood and wine dlc. Now I'm stuck with a simple viper gear only in New game +...
Wait what? I’m on pc and I sold my starting gear am I screwed?
The Persian Gamer it’s not the end of the world for u. Just think next time u want sale equipment
Really? Wow, I just kept it as a memento.
Biggest tip you can have is to learn about alchemy and invest in alchemy skills like heightened tolerance, acquired tolerance and protective coating. Also invest 3 points into axii to get the extra dialogue options which helps you avoid a bunch of conflict situations and gives extra xp.
You can swap this in and out for a combat ability as required.
Thank you for sharing the extra tips
Thanks dude
The fact that there are still Witcher 3 tips videos coming out shows how perfect this game is.
I made this video at the beginning of this year and it took off running. the Netflix series definitely brought life back into the game
Gaming with Abyss it absolutely has. It’s amazing how much replay value it has for a primarily linear, protagonist based game. My favorite game ever.
@@YonaDagalosi yeah I have over 300 hours into the game with the 2 DLC. I honestly didn't think I had that many hours
Played the game at release on Xbox. Then again on ps4. Built a PC and played it all again on that. Recently bought a laptop instead and now replaying it again. Love this game
@@aliquidgaming1068 hey yo, i had to wipe my pc due to some issues, but i had transferred my save file to pendrive. Now i wish to play witcher 3 again, so should i directly load the saves, or start again? I was in i guess skeillge island hunting with yennifer(although i prefer triss, lol) for cirilia.
The first tip cannot be stressed enough. You will need food and drinks to replenish your health, loot every box, cupboard, etc. Also dead enemies drop their weapons, loot it and sell it. Weapon smiths pay more for weapons and armor smiths pay more for armor. I have heard many people complain that they never seem to have enough money to buy that weapon or armor they want. This is usually because they are not selling defeat foes weapons/armor and relying only on payment for contracts.
Yes spot on and thanks for sharing
Yep, gathered every enchantment and piece of gear I desire and still a good 100K left in the bank. Looting is crucial to live a wealthy witcher life. 😎
There's a general character upgrade that I utilize every play through that allows your food to last for 20 minutes constantly refilling your health. Definitely one of the greatest upgrades in the game.
Well obviously
My question is I stock up a lot of them as I have been looting like crazy since the very beginning, but not sure how much I should keep for crafting and which of those should be simply dismantled? I guess I have too many hides, monster organs and other junks... I think I only let go of them to get certain amount of coins I need..
Worth a mention; if you're diving for any treasure (like the moon blade) don't be put off by drowners, equip the crossbow you get at the Griffin fight and use it underwater, regardless of damage drowners only take one shot while swimming and geralt will auto aim if you don't hold the fire button
Wait, he will auto aim?
I not too long ago started playing this game, I'll take any help I can get. Thank you my friend.
He does auto aim and the crossbow is totally OP underwater, but he won't one-shot underwater enemies early in the game. I just found this out, on my 4th play through lol. Went to get Moonblade as soon as I got to Velen, level 3 on a fresh start, and the drowners were lvl 10. Each took 2 or 3 shots to kill
@chaitanyagokhale4782 yes! Best for drowners & sirens!!
Obviously the Netflix series , has reawakened this AWESOME game once again. By far the best RPG I've ever played. ( beat it 3 times to make sure I got the best ending)
Yeah it definitely did. On Steam charts the all-time high was at 94k back in 2015. Recently that has been top to over 100k
@@GamingWithAbyss Thanks for the map edge trick ! You're the first ever to have mentioned it that I can recall., And I've watched about million Witcher 3 videos.
You're welcome and good luck
Not only did it reawaken the game, but the books as well. Last week on Barnes and Noble website the books were sold out 😂
@@aaronseidl5941 now that's interesting. I didn't think to check if the books were sold out because most likely I would buy them digital if that's available
1. Always double tap for automatic cantering to follow the roads.
2. Use Witcher sense when running overland or riding Roach. You find a ton of random encounters and loot.
3. Make sure to read your quest journal after you complete one - esp. sidequests. There are some...uhhh...unintended consequences to many of your actions.
Wish I knew those my first playthrough
Why?
For example?
Thanks. I'll read about what happened to the arsonist 😂
@@ugn154can’t remember the quest name but it’s with the magic lamp on fyke isle, if you take the bones to the boyfriend to bury she escapes and kills everyone in some village
@@mattscamp7974 Cardinal Sins. When you hunt the serial killer who hurt Precilla. If you pay attention, read and go through all dialog options you will learn that the preacher isn't the serial killer (It took e until my 5th playthrough, almost 5 years after the games release to realize this). TW3 is filled with quests that is alot deaper and longer than we thought if we actually pay attention
For me No1:
Should not have banged both Triss and Yennifer
Lmao I did the same
@@GamingWithAbyss I remember romancing Keira, Sasha, Syanna, Triss, Yen, Shani and even the girl in the quest Iron Maiden.
And yes, I completed all the side missions.
@@crispyengineer7521 lmao same I romance everyone. The special cutscene get with Trish and Yennefer was great in the dlc
Why not
Better to not bang anyone. No regrets that way.
In both Skyrim and Witcher 3 I can't resist the urge to pick herbs even though I never use potions
Maybe it's because of the sound!
You really should they can be very helpful and once you craft them that's it all you have to do is replenish
herbs are a good source of income if you sell them. Most herbs sell for 1G, but you can just get so much of them from running around that you can make decent money.
U should play rdr2 then 😅
Same. Whenever I do a quest that is only 200m or shorter distance away, I always drop the horse and just run, while picking up herbs along the way
A crucial tip if you love fighting over-leveled enemies: if you already have it, throw a Superior Northern Wind at an enemy, doesn't matter if it's human, nonhuman or monster. After it's frozen, sheathe your sword and give a strong punch. Not a fast, but a strong punch. It's pretty much a guaranteed one hit kill
I never knew that nice tip
@@GamingWithAbyss no prob. I actually read it in the witcher wiki for Doors Slamming Shut. Awfully useful. The only enemkes it doesn't work on are flying guys like slyzards or wyverns
Damn.. if this really works you re the best
@@muratgunes8291 it works, but I'm realizing just now that I failed to mention it only works in NG+, for some odd reason
you can basically one shot drowners underwater with the crossbow.
Yes the crossbow is extremely handy on the water
Unless it has a higher level.
Also against sirens on boats
Gaming with Abyss and you can in Setting switch the automatic save to 2 min instead of 15min
anialator1000000 I have a question, if I have upgraded bolts then do I have an infinite supply? Or do I have to keep buying them
Just recently learned that Geralt aims the crossbow by himself if you just click it once instead of holding it. Underwater siren fights in Skellige got a lot easier.
This ^
So instead of aiming you just tap and he aimbots it?
@@N3RDH3LP yep! sometimes he still misses if they circle back, but they go straight towards you if you're close enough. i'd still try not to aggro too many at the same time, because you can't use special bolts underwater and geralt can be quite slow when reloading.
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rolling relic gear - save before the loot, save manually when you get better option and reload quick save as many times as you want to roll good weapon or gear. Especially in early game difference on silver sword damage could be over 30% (e.g. the same moonblade you can get with 122dmg or 160dmg - this makes massive difference).
The old save and reload trick works for almost every game. Nicely done and thank you for sharing that tip
When you go into a cave and see highlighted stalagmites or tall pointy rocks USE THE AARD SPELL to break them to see what's inside I just found that out yesterday and there's no telling how much loot I missed out on
thank you for sharing the extra tip
lol i just wondered wtf is this cave for (near bloody baron's house) all i saw was pointy rocks facing downwards i wondered for like 20 mins and then gave up. gonna try that again tomorrow thanks fam!
@@HassanMehdi98 it's any stalagmites pointing upward that when you use your witcher senses it glows gold just like treasure or ant container with loot just use the aard spell on them when you see them becuase I saw them in countless dungeons and didnt even realize it
damn its pointing downwards but it shines just like loot items
@@HassanMehdi98 just use aard on it then sorry I dont mean to confuse you dude
i'm 20 hours in and have never meditated. THANK YOU
You're welcome and good luck
@@GamingWithAbyss i meditate to replenish my detoctions and potions
Not to be mean but how tf-
Like whenever you opened the menu didn't you see it?
@@humanbeing8676 I dunno... maybe? It's been awhile, but if it's as noticeable as you make it sound, then I probably just assumed it had an alternative function, e.g. used as a day/ night cycle or whatever
Me right now! I’m like why can’t I craft health 😅
There's a autosave option in the settings which will autosave every 3 minutes instead of the usual 15 minutes... which can be useful if you often forget to save yourselves.
Where is it?
@@JR-bi6lg options - game - savetime
Thanks you save my game
@@sahabat.exe.1834 lol
Amazing
There’s too much to do in this game. I’m overwhelmed. Help
Edit: all good. Platinumed the game
Matthew Cox ok so once you get to white orchard and have freedom, get to level 2 by doing a few main story quests but then go and hit up all the “?” On the map.. this will offer you perk points, weapon an armour plus all the odds and ends.
Food and water hold importance in this game so every village you find, empty the houses completely! Just take everything tho keep in mind that looting in front of soldiers will start a fight.. other than that makes sure to save the game everytime you do something(trust me) and with all the “lesser runestones” you’ll be finding, sell them! They are worth decent gold in the early game, don’t waste money buying supplies as you can have an overflowing bag just by going around like I mentioned before.
Hope it helps 👍🏻
Use side missions to level up when the main quest get to high level for you.
Use either hunts for money, and use treasure quests for new gears.
You can do just side quests and be about level 10 levels above the recommended for main quests
@@nathenbosher1067 That's why you do a few, then back to main.
My side quest list is overwhelming 😎
@@lordtyrant420 yeah just chill out and enjoy everything the game has to offer. I have about 80 hours first playthrough w/ DLC and im still not done so it takes a while
Good combat tip is when dodging (not rolling) dodge towards your enemy as they are attacking and you should end up behind them which gives you more time to attack and a bigger damage bonus when attacking from behind
When you know the game like the back of your hand but gotta watch anyway cos its witcher❤️👌
Thank you I appreciate it
This game is so confusing
@@luchovargas9357 You really think so? If you need help with anything just HMU.
@@luchovargas9357 what's confusing man? I'm sure we could help.
It’s almost like a very detailed aco
Loot everything and play gwent are my recommendations , coming from a hardcore Witcher fan
Spot-on and thank you for sharing
I just can't get into Gwent, I failed some missions regarding it even cause i completely ignored them.
How much story am i missing?
@@mohamedab9033 same
@@mohamedab9033 I can't play Gwent XD finished the game twice but never learned how to play Gwent
Mohamed Ab story not much , fun a lot lol gwent is only secondary quests but it’s really fun once u get a hang of it , I recommend you try playing Against shop keepers and black smiths so u can build up a good deck and then go after the quest characters
If you are planning on gathering all gwent cards, play with all npc's on a new area before completing quests. Some NPC's with unique cards can die and so you wont be able to complete your collection.
I wish I’d known that components break down into other components.. spent ages looking for a certain ingredient just to find out I had essentially hundreds of it in another ingredient 🙄 also for newer players when you get to roam free in white orchard, go round and discover everything! Its a lot of stuff that you won’t regret going and finding early on.
Yeah dismantling stuff is very important when looking for certain items. Plus you're right exploring the first area is smart. There is a bunch of stuff to discover
Honestly one of the most ingenious thing about this game was white Orchard it was a perfect tutorial map.
If you're looking for certain ingredients, this site has proven tremendously helpful to me: www.rpguides.de/the-witcher-3/gegenstaende/monster-materialien-monsterous-remains.htm
@@GamingWithAbyss you mean there's more than heading towards the question marks/unidscovered markers?
@@kuasiellesius7991 that site is wicked thank you!!
1 tip: explore Skellige as soon as you get there. The game does such an injustice to Skellige. There's so much to explore but you barely have time to do it if you do the main quest. You literally do 2 missions for the main quest and you're out of there, and everytime you get back to Skellige for the main quest there's a sense of urgency to it.
So my tip is as soon as you get to Skellige and meet up with Yennefer, do the one mission where you have to go the Castle and meet Crach, then just explore the living shit out of Skellige. Skellige is a gorgeous place teeming with undiscovered locations and is a pleasure to explore, which is why it baffles me even more how Skellige is basically a footnote in the main story when you spend so much time in Velen and Novigrad doing glorified fetch quests, and Skellige compared to those two places is MASSIVE, yet the main quest lets you stay only for a few hours and that's it.
Thank you for sharing the extra tip
Tbf though Skellige has quite possibly the most epic quest in the whole game "The Lord of Undvik" and plenty of side quests that fill out the isles lore. Skellige might be a backdrop to the main quest line but its still fleshed out with plenty of gaming content.
That's why it bothers me so much the main quest barely happened in Skellige. I *loved* that side quest and couldn't wait to explore more of Skellige, but as soon as I did the main quest on Skellige everything just moved so fast and before I knew it I was back in Velen then to Kaer Morhen then fighting the Wild Hunt.
You spend so much time in Velen and Novigrad doing just fetch quests and other bullshit just so you can smell a faint fart by Ciri left behind weeks ago and I was so ready to spend some time in Skellige but nope, barely anything happens there main quest wise.
I'm currently playing through hearts of stone right now and I wish they'd make that DLC take place in Skellige, then they would've used the massive map they created for something.
@@yashwinning I know what you're saying, but the fact that Skellige was in the game blew me away itself. Think about it, they could of cut the whole Skellige content out of that game, saved money and production time and nobody would of known any better. Specially since White Orchard was the tutorial area and Velen/Novigrad were so huge. I'm just thankful we got Skellige at all.
There's a good reason why they kinda left skellige out，probably didn't have enough time to polish it. Skellige is a mess compared to novigrad. It is infuriating to travel because of mountains and islands(granted you can buy fast travel scrolls but I'm not sure if they price is worth it)，there are many balance issues. You'll sometimes see level 34 enemies right next to level 13 enemies. Place is desolate not many npcs to interact with hence not many interesting side quests. There is a couple platforming sections which is god awful because geralt moves like a horse on ice. He'll draw his sword right as he jumps because devs added sirens to the platforming section and instead of grabbing the edge of the cliff he'll fall down.
It's just obvious the devs couldn't finish skellige by the release date.
Thanks for not spoiling anything, and giving advice that, after the white orchard business and opening up the larger world, is very relevant to an untrained eye on the game, first play through on hard for me... And I'm already willing to devote a good portion of my life to this game.
You're welcome and it can be difficult not spoiling anything when it's a tips and tricks guide
Only thing i didn't know is the edge of the world fast travel tip.
I have 100% of the Witcher 3 trophies, but i didn't know this lol
Yeah that is one that even vet players didn't know
@@GamingWithAbyss
It would've saved a lots of time, but not a big deal because the W3 world is beautiful and i liked to travel with a horse.
I got the W3 plat back in 2015 (was my #10 plat) and it's still my all time favourite game.
I need to buy the GOTY version too :)
Yes it's nice to know there's still secrets that one got me too haha
@@trumpjongun8831 You should have this version if you bought in on gog.com. I got it for free because i bought everything in preorder.
@@trumpjongun8831 Yeah same, i enjoy travelling around and encountering monsters.
Some good Gwent tips;
-Spy cards are your best friend
-If you're playing against Nilfgaard, bring all your Decoys since Nilfgaard is the most Spy heavy deck
-Monster deck is easily defeated by the Biting Frost + any type of Scorch card, preferrably Villentretenmerth
-Try to bring a mix bag in your deck, don't load too many cards on a single row
-If you happen to draw 2 of the same type of Muster cards, throw one away at start to free up a card slot for something else.
-Never throw away Medic cards because they can turn the table in a single move, and if you have more than one Medic card, feel free to keep slapping cards down to bait your opponent into draining their card pool. You can always revive used cards in the last round with Medic cards.
-Try not to bring more than 2 weather cards
-Don't bring out your big cards immediately, especially late game when the AI typically has at least 1 Scorch card, sometimes 2.
-Get Mysterious Elf ASAP. It's the best card in the game. It's a Spy card and it's also a Hero card which means it can't be Decoyed or Scorched, plus it's worth 0 points so you don't add anything to your opponent's score.
-Finally, if you want to practice Gwent without losing money - consider enabling the dev console and type in "secretGwint" to immediately initiate a Gwent match against AI whenever and wherever you are, free of charge. This only works for PC though
I kinda don't have the patience for Gwent just like that board game in Horizon Forbidden West. The only time I wanna see a chess piece is if I'm playing DMC3.
Spam the dodge button(idk the actual name but it's the one where do you a short hop in a direction), do not spam roll or parry. The dodge move will give you invulnerability for around .5 seconds. I died to every mob until i learn that while parry is fun, dodging is just way better as even if the attack hits you but you dodge, it will not deal damage any to you. Rolling away will make you lose tempo and reset your lock on which is annoying. So dodging is more optimal than parrying or rolling.
Thank you for sharing the extra tip
I thought that getting hit while dodging did damage you, why else is there a red tree skill that says it reduces damage while dodging?
@@TheAethelwulf1972 I believe they are talking about when you do the long roll(wording differences as dodging can just mean rolling out of the way). As the quick dodge has invincible frames right as you press it. I only know from my experience. I don't know if difficulty affects this but it has always given me s, of course, you still have to know the timing but spamming it in tight situation always works.
@@eddieescobedo9975 what what?
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Things I wish I knew earlier: The Alchemy skill tree is amazing. Specifically the Refreshment, Acquired Tolerance, and Heightened Tolerance skills. Maxing out Refreshment makes any potion you drink also instantly heal you for 25% of your total HP, and maxing the two Tolerance skills will allow you to have at least 3 decoctions active at once with enough of your toxicity bar left over to chug a potion or two.
If you have Blood & Wine, Alchemy gets even more ridiculous with the Mutation system that expansion added. There is one Mutation that increases your sword damage and sign intensity by %0.75 for every 1 point of toxicity you have. And with some skill investments you can get quite a high maximum toxicity. When I was running my version of this build, I was getting somewhere around a %170 damage increase, and my build wasn't even that optimal for it.
That was the build I beat Death March with.
Oh wow nicely done and thank you for sharing
Before the alchemy build ever came in to play I based my death march play through on Axii and made all my enemies kill each other. It was funny and fun though admittedly way worse than the alchemy build. Just some fun input no real reason to post this lol
I stepped away from the game for awhile and had to basically relearn everything when I picked it back up, but digging into the game with fresh eyes helped me discover all the alchemy stuff I’d largely ignored initially. My brother had the exact same experience. I’ve always wondered if an alchemy build is even possible early on in the game. I remember completely ignoring decoctions because they weren’t explained very well (barely at all, really), it seemed like using them would basically kill you, and the descriptions didn’t make the benefits sound all that great. It’s a build you really can’t just dabble in like you can signs and combat. You have to really commit to it.
Bovine Joni you can always reset the skill tree with a potion and make a new build
What do you do if you’re not in a toxic area though?
You can cast Igni on beehives to get honeycomb. You'll get atleast 2 and atmost 4. I had more than 60 before leaving white ochard. It's rare in Velen but you'll mostly find them in villages or swamps.
Good tip 👍
What do you use honeycomb for?
@@chris10878 for eating
@@chris10878
Better for restoring vitality than most foods
Thanks for the tip. I was just punching and swinging my sword at it 😂
If you use a sign while on horseback it will cast axii on roach and decrease his fear level.
I discovered that the other day and I was oh neat
I had to Google your pronunciation of Bestiary. I had always, mistakenly, called it the Beastiary. Thank you.
Yeah, you almost think that's how it's supposed to be. Since All that is in it are Beast.
I have been calling it Beastiary for years until recently I noticed that it actually is Bestiary... Felt embarrassed
Men.. I also kep pronouncing Beastiary. Mandel effect?
The dictionary says both pronunciations are correct. The original pronunciation was most likely BESTiary because the Latin word for beast is bestia. We really should ask why the English changed "best" to "beast" instead. But the answer is obvious: "best" was already a word in English. Yes, the evolution of words could be something as silly as that.
What? It isn't beastiality?
For me the best discovery was Temerian Armor on New Game + ( all your old gear from previous game will be obsolete at lvl 55 give or take.) Buy it at White Orchard Merchant that you rescued from the Griffin in cut scene. 2) Buy the Nilfgaardian Armor at Crow's Perch if you want Medium Armor build (optional) 3) Definitely buy the Skellige Armor set when you get there. (Heavy) These Armor sets will give you a cushion to upgrade your Witcher Gear for later boss fights. Another tip is to jamb as much crap into one of the storage chests before NG+. It becomes a nice reference for what NG+ gear does. & you can sell it after Blood & Wine. (Witcher IRA) I wore Temerian Armor w/Assassins Gloves & old GM Manticore boots (for the toxicity) For a huge part of the new game+. Shame Ves didn't notice.
thank you for sharing the extra tips
The only problem is that the bonuses given by the Witcher Armors, like félin and Manticore, are extremely good, and The Temerian, Nilfgaardian and Skellige Armor doesn’t provide any good bonuses.
I remember when I played skyrim and I was so overwhelmed by all the quests, spells, builds, different weapons and shit. I just started playing the witcher 3 and Jesus Christ it's like that all over again but X10
Can’t understand how he’s so powerful yet a 5 ft fall does him in”😖
lmao right
Witcher knees are directly connected to the reflex nerve and Achilles. It's their uh Achilles heel as they say😊
Just got this game after watching the show, and I love it holy balls. It’s just so overwhelming
Yeah there is a lot you can do in this game and easily spend up the 200 hours with all the activities
Hey best late then never
Man, I wish I just started for the first time. I've put in 400 hours+ and don't regret a single minute of it. Except for that one minute in 2016...
The view from the balcony at Kear Morhen!
Having the strong back skill is a good thing specially grinding quest in velen and novigrad where tons of sword, armor and sellable stuff are lootable, having strong back makes you horde more sellable items specially when armorers and smiths are out of gold, you can hold on stuff longer while waiting for them to stocking up some crowns so you can sell to them again
Edit: also it only cost 1 point getting this skill for lvl 6 or 7 would defenetly help, btw i recently played Witcher 3 again and gained 18k crown while still level 14 grinding stuff at velen and novigrad ALSO check the vendors coz not all of them pays the same amount, some pays more some pay less, swords usually valued more if you sell them to blacksmiths and armor to armorers
Good profile image my Friend ;)
After nearly 1000 hours in this game I just today accidentally found out that if you don Geralt's Nilfgaardian armor set (purchased from the Quartermaster in upper Crow's Perch (the merchant right by Joanna the Blacksmith, and Fergus,))you can gain entry into the House of Respite that sits just northwest of the Nilfgaardian war camp (which, itself, sits in the far southeast corner of Velen.)
Turn to the right after you enter the building and you'll find a unique winged Nilfgaardian helm, like the ones the soldiers wear! Super cool. You equip it like a mask. It looks weird on Geralt, but almost nobody has it.
I’m so glad you covered the moon blade. Because I did have it early on top around level 5 or so and I kept using it till about 14 and constantly switching out my steel sword with other loots throughout the game... except for the moonblade. Now I’m glad you said it’s such a great weapon because no matter what weapon I got that was orange quality, I just couldn’t give up this level 3 sword. Now I don’t feel like such a noob.. thanks yo
you're welcome and it's definitely a good weapon to start out with plus easy to get
@Devon Higgins My question as well! Why wait?
I just found this: "The Moonblade is a lethal sword that's best picked up when you're at a higher level because of its scaling damage."
Just started my 7th playthrough of the game, and there are only a few tad bits I could suggest. If you have all the free dlc, you can buy a lvl 4 temerian light armour from the guy Geralt and Vesemir save from the Griffin. After meeting Emhyr the first time, I was lvl 2 at the time and used the potion you start the game with to equip the set. I didn't find any armour better till the Griffin witcher gear.
Another point, lay out your character build before spending skill points, sure you can respec, but I found it very helpful planning out which skills I need first in the playthrough. (Alchemy tree under rated). I never bothered with alchemy skill tree and I feel dumb af now. 3 Skills I use in every character build because they just make your time much easier. Refreshment heals you 25% health upon any potion use, also increases potion duration by 25%. Undying, uses your adrenaline points when you die to revive you. And feet footed, you don't take damage when you dodge.
Igni and quen are cool and all, but aard, axii and yrden are also very cool and valuable signs especially when you combo them with different witcher gear. Current playthrough I have aard sweep and piercing cold with aard sign intensity 90%. I freeze big groups of enemies and throw a bunch of bombs down such as grapeshot and dancing dragon. You can recreate the same thing with the northern wind bomb.
Thank you for sharing the extra tips
I think at around l11 you can get the nilfgardian armour set from the quartermaster in the Baron's's compound at crows perchopposite the dwarf armourer. This has huge damage reduction starts against all types of slashing, piercing and bludgeoning and is fantastic against human enemies
@@lesleybarnett7605 it's one of my favourite sets combined with the nilfgardian horse gear, but all of it is very expensive and not as good as any of the witcher sets. I do use it for cosplay purposes early on however
One tip from me is don’t feel obligated to use oils, potions, and decoctions. I played all the way through new game+ on death march without touching any of them. A good build (use quen), grandmaster armor and enchanted weapons are all you really need.
Yeah they should be your go-to item if you're having trouble with that particular enemy. I felt that Death March was hard in the very beginning of the game and then at the end. Everything else in between was not bad
yeah oils and decoctions are OP when you invest in the alchemy skill tree so dont do an alchemy build if you want a challenging experience.
I believe the important thing is not the "need" , if you have a proper build you can just spam left click and win the game but I think using all the sources to its far extent is what can make this game amazing. For instance, when I'm fighting a group of enemies I always use the proper oil (I got used to their colours,I dont need to look at their names for hours) I use my before-the-fight quen, and dive into the battle with a bomb (preferably northern wind or dancing star) so my dive into fight with some bunch of bandits becomes an epic showtime, I use dragon's dream and pop and igni, use a potion through the fight depending on the enemy (for example blizzard makes my pirouettes seem cinematic) and change this combinations all the time. so to sum up I think using every possible thing makes you stronger, normally, and makes your experience something unforgettable.
I use oils for the sound it makes when they’re applied
Always go for Witcher weapons and lighter/medium amour, and always make sure to use you higher mutagens that have the same colour as your attack ( *mutagens* blue=sign boost, red=attack boost, green=potion/poison/vitality boost, yellow= yellow perks boost!).
Witcher weapons and certain trophies help you level up faster throughout the game.
Lighter/medium amour help you dodge/roll without spending too much of your stamina/adrenaline which in turn makes you use your signs a lot faster, if you have heavier armour that will drain you stamina/adrenaline a lot faster and it will slow down the process of rebuilding it faster, but the defence is impeccable.
Good tips, and also to upgrade the mutagens in the alchemy section too. 3 lessers = 1 regular, and 3 regulars = 1 greater.
The best tip I know is the invincible decoction mix: Ekimmara,Ekhidna,Archgriffin combo will make u invincible with strong attacks and you just need 10 levels to open all of the abilities for increasing toxicity.
Things I wish I knew earlier: start a new game plus at least at level 50 because I reached level 100 which is the level cap on new game plus but I started at about 48 or so, therefore my grandmaster armour and weapons can only reach level 98 or so..
That's definitely good to know and thank you for sharing
And don't start new game plus without Aerondight cause you are able to level the sword with you all the way to 100. It is as strong as the one you can obtain later in Toussaint on new game plus.
Last I heard was start ng+ at level 55 so in new game the armors will be 95, can they go up to 100 now?
Jaded Old Joe I am using the Manticore Grand Master Armor in the new game plus on Death March for the Toxicity bonus. I am level 70 and playing the Novigrad missions with Triss. I haven’t had any problem for now, in fact I am shiting on everything. Do you think I will be able the play with this Armor until Blood and Wine ?
I’ve played maybe 4 hours of this game when it came out and hated it. Last week I found out they did an update on it to run 60fps on series x. After 2-3 hours I actually feel in love with this game. Can’t believe the difference 60fps makes in input lag. It felt great. I’m level 47 and on my ng+ now being a dick in the dialogue lol
Same shit happened to me, I didn't enjoy the game up until maybe 10 hours through and now I'm addicted. Also I get you with the dialogue I do the same shit
One thing I wish I knew was that I could dismantle monster items to get specific items for crafting Witcher equipment.
true there are a lot of hidden items you could use
Gaming with Abyss I spent 2 days in real looking for powdered monster tissue then I FOOKING realized I could have dismantled som monster parts and saved myself time I could have spent completing quests. I regret everything.
it happens there's a lot to do in this game
5:00 or just get the Viper swords from White Orchard, both come with pretty good stats and both have an inherent 15% chance to poison which is extremely strong early game.
This
I had to get to skellige three separate times before I finally got into this game. It happened the same each time, I'd play through Velen and Novigrad, be slightly intrigued, get on the boat, get overwhelmed and put it down for just long enough to only kind of remember how to play.
It didn't help that my primary experience with open worlds was Skyrim and Fallout.
But by the fourth time things started to feel more natural and when I got to the boat I just kept going and didn't notice.
I'm now close to finishing the main story and kind of excited for the DLCs. If for no other reason than that sweet red armor.
I just redownloaded this game after I beat it years ago. Can’t wait to play it again!
Yeah for being almost 5 years old it was good to jump back in
Same here 😁
I love every second of it! Can’t wait till Cyberpunk!
I just picked it back up again. Love the grinding for loot and equipment.
Fire pfp
I thought loot everything was a rule of thumb for any game
Probably not so important in gatcha bs games like Genshin.
Something I did for infinite money is meditate where mordvarg spawns and keep killing him. You can collect the stuff infinitely and sell it for infinite money. It’s a long process, but I used it whenever I needed coin. (This is during the “In wolf’s clothing” side quest.)
thank you for sharing this
Sir could you share the location where it spawns? Im very new to the game(1 hours in)
Shin It’s somewhat far in. When you go to Skellige there’s a mission where you go to a graveyard and (minor spoiler) use Necromancy to find out what happened to Ciri. It’s either during that quest or after, you get the in wolf’s clothing.
@@doopydarp1027 thx m8 literally gonna do this trick(currently lvl 8 not sure if i could do it or not)
Shin You have to down mordvarg first. Should probably wait at least until level 15 or so. Even then, brew some potions and oils.
1. Read what the potions, decoctions, and bombs do and keep all your alchemy items as upgraded as possible. Golden Oriole for example is extremely useful against Endragas, and other enemies like the hybrids that poison you as it turns poison into healing. You can run into a pack of Endrega drones and with golden oriole you will just stay full health as they will keep poisoning you and healing you. Black Blood is also very useful against some enemies. 2. You can use the crossbow while piloting the boats without standing up and it will auto target for you. Very useful in Skellega when dealing with all the hybrids over the water. It also shoots them off when they grab onto the side of the boat. 3. Looting inside homes, and around towns and cities when no guards are watching gives tons of loot. It's weird how you can just rob people in their homes without them noticing. Only can't do it in front of guards. Novigrod and other cities at night has less guards so you can run around looting ridiculous amounts of stuff. 4. Herbalist huts tend to have a lot of herbs planted around them in close proximity so you can net a lot of them quickly this way. Other good areas involve farming fields around the towns where the people plant stuff. Herbs regrow rather quickly too. Running around with the witcher senses on highlights all the stuff you can grab. 5. If you have witcher contract quests speak to the contract giver first as if you run into the contract in the wild before speaking then you miss the opportunity to haggle. Haggling can often grant you a lot more gold. 6. When romancing Yennefer, and Tris you get to choose 1 of them to be with when you get to Kaer Morhen. If you choose both well they will find out and you will end up alone after a funny cut scene. It doesn't matter if you sleep with the various other women that you have opportunities with though. 7. Northern Wind bomb can be very useful to freeze foglets or people so you can get a kill button on them. Probably works on other smaller enemies as well, but I haven't tried it. 8. For flying enemies like hybrids and draconoids you have a variety of ways to knock them out of the air so you can hit them on the ground. Crossbow, Axi, and Aard all do it. 9. Remember to loot monster nests after you destroy them. 10. When doing fist fights as there are a lot of these fights you can enter then just parry there attacks and then use the heavy attack on them a few times as they will be stunned. Rinse repeat and it gets very easy once you get the hang of them. 11. When horse racing it helps to have an upgraded saddle, but there is a ton of rubber banding so run as fast as you can and then just trot till the stamina builds back up while trying to block your opponent from passing you. Hard to know how long the race is so if you refresh your stamina too close to the end and your opponent gets ahead you can't overtake them in time. 12. Check every vendor or NPC you can open a dialogue with to see if they play gwent if you enjoy playing and want to get all the cards. Also see if they sell Gwent cards as some vendors do, particularly innkeepers. Some quests impact a gwent player so you can miss out on opportunities. So keep in mind. For example one quest with trish has a short little tournament you can play that you can only participate during that quest. Also, once defeating a gwent player check their dialogue again to see if the gwent option is still white and not greyed out as you may be able to beat them again for another card. This is usually the case on some of those who you challenge from a quest. 13. Easy to forget that for noonwraiths you need a yrden sign down to reveal them so you can damage them. Keep Specter oil on against them and regular wraiths. 14. When you have too much weight, overburdened you walk and swim slow, but you can still ride your horse, and a boat at full speed. Use the FIend Decoction for an extra 20 of weight you can carry. You can also still fast travel so in most cases being overburdened isn't that big of a deal.
Here's some more important tips:
Repairing items is actually not as big a deal as many people might think. Items on 0 durability don't actually break, and, while they do receive a small malus to damage/armor value, on weapons it's hardly noticeable unless it makes you kill certain enemies in 1 hit more, and on armor, the %protection values are much more important, as armor substracts from damage first, not after the percentages, so say enemy does 1000 dmg and you had either 200 or 100 armor, and your total resistance to his type of damage was 50%, in case your armor was 200, you would be dealt (1000-800)*50/100 = 400 dmg, and in the other case, (1000-100)*50/100=450 dmg. The damage reduced by percentage protection is far greater, and the more percentage protection you have, the less value you gain from actual armor rating.
Repairing items should NEVER be done at smiths, instead, if you loot around, you're bound to find a crapton of repair kits, for both armor and weapons. HOARD those, store any excess in stash and keep 2 aprentice and 2 journeyman kits of each on you just in case. The money you will save from using those instead of paying smiths for repair is no joke, especially on items past level 10, where 15% durability will cost more than 15 crowns to repair, whereas if you just sold your apprentice kits, you'd get 4 crowns at most. Silver weapons and heavier armor cost even more to repair too.
Dismantling should ONLY be done at Master level smiths/armorers, as they give 100% of the materials back. This is something very few people know about, but it's actually doable even at level 4 when you first get out of Vizima and into Novigrad. Just bolt straight into novigrad, no need for a pass, swim across the pontar like the true witcher pro you are, and start Hattori's "Of Swords and Dumplings" quest. Don't be intimidated by the level required, all the combat in this quest will resolve itself without you even having to swing your sword. There will be a fist fight with Sukrus at most, but as long as you know the basics of countering when he punches, you'll get it done, the other sections of combat there will ALWAYS be at least 1 immortal character to butcher your enemies if you simply dodge around and quen for the entirety of the fights. You will need to get axii lvl 2 though. lvl 3 will allow you not to pay 200 crowns though.
Another tip for early game, take note of what merchants buy what items at what prices. Only good merchants for food items are white orchard and velen inkeeps. Other inkeeps have crappy prices for food, but really good "clutter/junk" buying prices. Do NOT sell stuff to normal "misc" merchants that can buy everything, they'll essentially scam you. Weapons and armor you would ideally store in your storage vault, whatever contains dimeritium/shiny ingots you should keep for dismantling, the rest you will sell in bulk to armorers/weaponsmiths in big cities only, like oxenfurt/novigrad. Peasant smiths give shit prices. Armorers pay more for armor, Blacksmiths more for weapons. Both pay well for horse accessories(saddles,blinders,bags). Alchemists in or near big cities will pay the best coin for your alchemy monster parts, like drowner brains, bloods, etc. and also all the excess alcoholic beverages you'll never use, alchemy paste and powder you'll loot along the way.
Also notable is that not all items in a category have the same price modifier everywhere. Certain alchemists in white orchard and velen for instance will pay a premium for honey, at 7 crowns per piece, that's the most money you can get per piece of honey sold, however their food buying prices are subpar.
Hate to even call this a game, seems to do the experience injustice, more like a timeless journey. Definitely good argument for RPG of the decade. Glad to see it making a strong comeback, of course the hardcores never stopped playing it ; )
very right. When people say you're transported to another world, this is what they mean. A TRUE MASTERPIECE.
The "hardcores"?........folks with ZERO friends, family or life to speak of at all? Criiiinge
If you want to farm red mutagen early , head to Toderas and kill the alghoul. You can respawn the enemies by fast travel to White Orchid or other region and back.
I've played the witcher a number of times since release so I was expecting to know all of these. I cant believe I didnt figure out the map edge fast travel thing...
One is better than none I guess but yeah if you played the game previously before and it sounds like you played the DLC than most of these you should know
Still enjoyed the video, and am so happy for the developers that their game still garners so much support and enjoyment. Keep up your content for both us vets and new players jumping in.
@@eg0nmaker I just can't wait for the next Witcher
Me too! I thought I knew every single thing about this game after defeating it 3 times, I've never seen this edge map trick on any other videos ever.
Ain’t gone lie I’m always down for a round of gwent 😂
This is the way
Word. I spend 1/2 my gameplay playing gwent
I hate Gwent 😖
@@anenlightenedmisfit6262 SAME
Not really a fan of gwent or blitz ball from final fantasy x lol
Haven't been gaming for 10 years and decided to pick up a game. I've never seen such beautiful graphics lol.
Pretty amazing, and I've only just started playing witcher 3
yeah for a game that's 5 years old they did a hell of a job with gameplay and graphics. I can't wait to see what the Next Generation consoles will bring
Hey I also got the game yesterday 😁
Just got the game a few days ago..started on blood and broken bones mode. Other than the werewolf handing my ass to me.. everything's smooth sailing
How did it go? Did you finish the game?
I just got this game it's amazing
You're spot-on about that it is truly amazing
Enjoy your playthrough m8. Best rpg in the history of games.
Averylargewood I made the mistake of playing on the hardest difficulty. I made it to where you play as Siri and you fight wolves. I’m definitely dropping difficulty
Meditate infront of loot from nests to respawn it
thank you for sharing the extra tip
@@GamingWithAbyss I think you have to meditate like for 4 to 7 days to respawn the nests loot
Guys, one tip: if you dont want to keep eating to replenish vitality, get the gourmet skill under General in Character. It means that once you consume one piece of food or drink, your health will regenerate for a solid 20 mins.
I got the second (lower level) aerondight from the chest (found behind an illusion) after wandering in the dark with Keira Metz! I don’t know if it’s a rare drop or guaranteed to the chest, but it’s better than the moon blade I had at the time! So probably the best early game sword that nobody seems to reference
Thanks for sharing and that is one I did not know
Gaming with Abyss oh cool, it’s located in a chest right after the Nithral battle (but before she gets the magic lamp), it’s quite well hidden! The chest is protected by a foglet I believe
For anyone starting this game; look up what are the options to avoid an ending that will make your dozens of hours in this game feel wasted. It is just a few dialogue options among hundreds that make no sense. It will save you a lot of grief.
It’s really that bad? Won’t I get spoiled if I search it up?
@@danielgaspar8260 I’d say you don’t need to look it up. Just let Ciri do whatever she wants, by herself, and do what she tells you.
@@Somites it does get spoiled tbh when I searched it, it did
@Feral cat just do and support everything Ciri does, and let her be independent, even if it doesn't make sense to you.
No, DONT do this. You'll spoil yourself. Be an adult and deal with the ending you get, it's a story and you dont need 100% control over it.
The dismemberment effects in this game had me addicted. Often i put it on the easiest setting cuz it makes the effects far more realistic. I mean most if not all people would be done after a full force strike from a 4ft razor blade. Cut in half by 2 strikes or dismembered by 1 has really made it even more addicting to play. lol, riding by on a horse having a single swipe take a head off is just f****** awesome..
If you upgrade all of Axii it is the most over powers thing in the game, you can turn enemies into allies and they can kill with one hit and be killed with one hit
When you do quest, pay attention to all the optional dialogs and read lore. Many quests is alot deeper, more complex and longer than we first think, and many quests have hidden plot twists. Here is one example: Cardinal Sins. When you hunt the serial killer who hurt Precilla. If you pay attention, read and go through all dialog options you will learn that the preacher isn't the serial killer (It took me until my 5th playthrough, almost 5 years after the games release to realize this)
If u play on pc u can install essential mods
1. Auto apply oil depending on the enemy
2. Max weight 9000
There's even more like Auto collect
fast travel from anywhere is nice too
a bit late but heres a tip: you can change your autosave interval to as low as every 3 minutes, found it the hard way after completing a major quest only to die afterwards
the default is 15 mins
when the game was first released it didn't have that option so it's a good reminder
Thanks, was not aware of this option. Since DX12 with the big remaster my game sometime crashes randomly (On PC).
i just bought the witcher 3 cause of summer sale, thank u so much for the tips it's so usefull for beginner like me
Glad I could help!
I see this helping someone that has just started and has never played it before. Nice job.
Ģwint trick 17 : Spys win the game
Yeah spies are really helpful
Friggin lost to the scholer npc 908 times at the beginning
gosh, yes!!!!! this is probably one of the most helpful tips if you want to pretty much speed run Collet Em' All
In my experience spy cards are detrimental for the most part. Their are a few decent ones but I still find them virtually worthless
Kyle Kautz you still have to play sensibly but if you don't mind sacrificing a round you can almost guarantee a win because the opponent will never be able to match the amount of cards you get from spamming spies. The only time this falls down is if they do the same or have ways of repurposing your spies into their own hand
Biggest tips.
Read the bestiary
Brew potions and upgrade them
Brew OILS and upgrade them
Craft Decotions.
Really Study the Alchemy Skills. Not the Flashiest but IMO the strongest.
Almost everyone I've spoken to that Dislikes this game or has qualms with it didn't use these tips they just ran into battle content with basic potions and no oils. Settle down and play as A Witcher study your Game and Hunt smarter not harder. HAPPY HUNTING!
Spot-on and thank you for sharing the extra tips
Yup, and for those that find it too tedious to put on oils before the fights there are mods to do it for you apparently.
Tips that I wish I knew:
1: In gwent always try to lose the 1st round unless it's an easy win, play your spy cards and weaker cards at that round
2: Use Axi on your horse to reduce its fear
3: Foglets won't attack you if you stand still and they don't get behind you, helps with trying to regenerate your stamina.
4:Crossbow 1 shot drowners underwater
5:If you still have a lot of weight but already sold most of your weapons and armor try selling your "junk" or dismantling it.
6: Don't forget to use your potions/decoctions and bombs in combination. You can throw a devil puffball, then drink the golden oriole (immunity to poison) and just run around as the enemy takes damage from poison cloud.
7: Don't forget about investing skills in the potion alchemy, popping 2-3 decoctions at a time can be a whole lotta fun. (I recommended Acquired tolerance)
Man, can you please explain something to me please? I'm trying to level up my character tree, but, now it's telling me " Additional points needed to unlock: 3" how the hell do I unlock more skills? I've been saving my points, thinking that would help . Nope. Any help would be appreciated, thanks
I believe, more important than the moonblade, you can get the Viper School Swords, plus the Warrior Jacket upgrade before you leave White Orchard. These items will lasts forever, even above level 10, when you start looking for more advanced Witcher gear.
Yes the Viper School set is one of my favorite. I just wanted to show everyone a really easy to get weapon that would only take you a minute to get
Thanks for that!
No problem!
You can loot chests more than once! When you've looted a chest and when you return later after you saved and loaded a game, you'll notice that when you use your "senses" that the chest lights up. When you walk (or swim) to the "empty" chest with the senses on then the lighting disappears. You probably didn't noticed that the "open chest" icon appears for just a spilt second. Whenever you've looted a chest and it appears highlighted in your senses you need to run towards the chest with you senses on and hit the button like a madman. Most of the time it will have some new loot. (i even had 3 of the special Undvik tools needed for the Armorer in Velen)
lmao i just found the quen sign’s usefulness today. been spamming that bad boy ever since
Yeah it really makes Death March difficulty easy and manageable
Gaming with Abyss oh no i’m only on the regular difficulty my guy. but this is my first witcher game haha. thanks for the video btw it was very helpful
You're welcome and good luck
I did not know that Gwent is mandatory for the story, I always thought was optional. Thanks for the tip
There's a tournament later on in the game and within it there is a missable gwent card. Plus there's so many opportunities to play gwent that it is a good idea to make sure you are decent at it
I beat the story without playing Gwent, if you don't care about doing 100% all the quests you can skip it through the whole game
I loathe card games in general so skipped Gwent altogether. Maybe something to learn right before finishing the last quest of BAW. 😉
You forgot to mention that rolling prevents you from breaking your neck - unless the drop is too big. Also Axii unlocks new dialogue options in some conversations - these are not the droids you are looking for :)
Just reinstalled this after finishing W1 and W2, crazy how so many people play this game now🤣, great video, thanks for uploading.
You're welcome and yeah it's crazy that it's gone over 100k daily
F6 Often, and get AutoLoot.
Works from Roach as well, and can steal hidden/guarded cashes and diagrams from witin caves, and behind monsters. I have it bound to W, so can go around an loot EVERYTHING (A bit Cheaty tho).
Not a bad tip for people on PC thanks for sharing
I use northen wind a lot. Like every time I hit a bandit camp. Comes very handy
Really good tips, some of the Witcher 3 guides are really dated and basic and this covered a few things I didn't know, just come back to the Witcher 3 after watching the Netflix series and proper falling in love again!
Yeah after watching the series I want to jump back into it again
If you have the pc version there is a mod that allows you to fast travel from anywhere. Simple to install. It’s a must have mod.
I highly recommend going into settings and changing movement control to "alternative" it feels much better to me than the other movement option. Playing with a controller.
My first couple played throughs I tried Gwent, but I really didn’t get into it because it was too much. This play through I told myself I’m gonna learn it and it’s actually a really really good game.
Another tip: if you're having a hard time, there are three alchemy abilities that will help you stay alive longer: with Refreshment, potions heal you if you're hurt, acquired tolerance increases max toxicity by 1 point (if you have a superior bomb in your inventorym you already have 3+ points and so on), and tissue transmutation, which, if fully upgraded, grants an additional 1000 HP for each decoction you drink. You can also throw in Adaptation, which will keep the HP bonus for longer. I did this yesterday during Blood and Wine and it really helped
2:39 To add to that, when you've just found a better sword, keep the old one as a spare incase you end up far from town and your new sword gets messed up mid fight.
Yeah early on this can definitely be a problem. But late late in the game, I don't remember too many issues with my sword wearing down too quickly.
I'm roughly 20 hours in, and it hasn't been a problem for a bit. But when watching this, the memory of breaking my sword mid fight just hit me like a brick and thought I'd share.
Happy monster hunting!
Another tip: underwater you can use your crossbow to get rid of monsters attacking you
Yes that is very handy and thank you for sharing
If you need crafting materials like 'monster feathers', you can dismantle harpy feathers, for example, to get these. No need to find specific items. Took me forever to find this out.
thank you for sharing that tip
The fast travel at border of map is really helpful
thanks
Personally, you told me nothing I didn't already know. But this is a good video for newbies to the game.
Great video.
Keep your best two of each silver and steel swords that way if one is damaged you always have a back up.
I agree and thank you for sharing the extra tip
Lol just carry around repair kits instead of 2 swords
By the time you are level 10, if you follow tip one of this guide you should have plenty of repair kits anyway. But carrying two sets of witcher armor is a good tip for different scenarios.
Human enemies are very weak to your signs. Set em on fire, slow them with yrden, stun the shield guys and slash their backs, knock them back and OHKO them while they are on the ground. Seriously (and minor spoiler for Blood and Wine), there are several massive human fortresses, and they're supposed to be difficult to beat due to the sheer number of enemies. Not with gryphon armor and signs. Honestly, you don't even need quen. Igni and yrden alone can clear the whole fortress.
I loved this game so much. I was having so much fun with the all the interesting characters and questlines and the combat was a blast. Then after maybe like 70 hours of time invested into this game I ran into a glitch and I’m unable to progress. (Possible spoilers below)
I got to Kaer Morhen and I had to do three quests. I helped both lambert and eskel and then I only had to help Yennefer with her megascope. Only the quest marker was on top of one of the mountains you can’t get to. I’ve done my best to try to walk all around the mountain and there is no way to get up I just slide down the sides. After watching some gameplay videos I realized that the quest marker was supposed to be in the tower in kaer morhen. I don’t know what to do now. I love this game so much I really don’t wanna just abandon it. I if anyone can give me some advice that would be great.
try reloading a previous save and see if that fixes it